"prognostication" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun referring to the act of predicting or forecasting the future. For example, you can say: "Psychics use their abilities to make prognostications about their clients' lives."
For all his gloomy prognostication and his passionate commitment to protest, Goldsmith was a gregarious and exuberant bon vivant, a gifted raconteur who hosted parties in his homes in rural Cornwall, London, Paris and the south of France.
It now reckons Britain is on track for roaring GDP growth of 3.4% in 2014, much better than the 2.6% market consensus.The bank's main error, and the source of most criticism, was one of prognostication.
Here's one way: his first reaction to a bit of welcome news that contradicts his public prediction elicits not relief at the result, but embarrassment and shame at his prognostication.
In his application of their techniques to the future, Mr Kohn gives a depth to the scenarios of which he speaks that the numbers and maps of more mundane climate prognostication can never match.In the process of immersing the reader in a fully realised set of tomorrows, Mr Kohn also recasts his perception of today.
THERE is a popular misconception about Moore's law (that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years) which has led many to conclude that the 50-year-old prognostication is due to end shortly.
In The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting (2013), Greenspan advanced guidelines for market prognostication in light of the lessons learned from the financial crisis.
The continuous controversy between the emperor and Confucian scholars who advocated a return to the old feudal order culminated in the famous burning of the books of 213, when, at Li Si's suggestion, all books not dealing with agriculture, medicine, or prognostication were burned, except historical records of Qin and books in the imperial library.
After the prognostication had been made, the day, the name of the presiding diviner (some 120 are known), the subject of the charge, the prognostication, and the result might be carved into the surface of the bone.
In many instances, a report is accompanied by a detailed astrological prognostication.
With regard to the accompanying prognostication, it should be pointed out that a delay of two or three years between the occurrence of a celestial omen and its presumed fulfillment is quite typical of Chinese astrology.
Since the literal content of most jiaguwen is related to ancient religious, mythical prognostication or to rituals, jiaguwen is also known as oracle bone script.
